Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twist in Moscow. One day, a fellow prisoner from Mongolia approached Father Leoni, told him he wanted to become a Catholic. After Leoni baptized him, the man turned out to be an informer. Jesuit Leoni was put on trial for carrying on religious propaganda and for other crimes-unspecified. Sentence: 25 years of forced labor at Vorkuta, the notorious slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle. Recalls Leoni: "At Vorkuta, it is winter twelve months of the year and summer the rest of the time. That I spent over seven years at Vorkuta without dying or going crazy...
...momentary change of tactics, regardless of any treaty the Kremlin may sign, is bent on conquering the entire world-the United States not excluded-and remolding it in the form of the totalitarian dictatorship and slave economy imposed on the people behind the Iron Curtain in Russia, Rumania, Outer Mongolia and on the Chinese mainland...
...Items on the Kremlin's demand list: "return" to Russia of Japan's Kurils and southern Sakhalin; leases on Manchuria's Port Arthur and Dairen, plus operating rights on the Manchurian railways; China's surrender of its claims to Sovietized Outer Mongolia...
Sequel. The President did not live to see Chiang Kai-shek's concurrence. But it was given, angrily yet inevitably. The Sino-Soviet treaties with all of Stalin's demands in Manchuria and Outer Mongolia were signed Aug. 14, 1945-the day Japan surrendered. In return for Chiang's concurrence, Stalin recognized Chinese sovereignty over Manchuria, promised Chiang military and economic...
Wartime Hero. Zhukov was lucky to be away from Moscow when Stalin liquidated thousands of Red army officers in the purge of 1937, and like many of his fellows, profited by stepping into dead men's shoes. In 1939 he commanded the Red Banner army in Outer Mongolia, where the Russians were engaged in a frontier struggle with the Japanese. Zhukov applied classic cavalry tactics to armored warfare: he massed his tanks, smashed a hole through the center of the Japanese Sixth Army, and bloodily crushed its flanks between his fanning-out Panzers and advancing infantry. This little-known...